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southern MN | Albert Lea Seedhouse has a nice plow down blend most years, red clover and generic alfalfa. It works well as a seeding with oats or wheat. Some years the alfalfa does a lot, some years insects/ weather are not kind to the alfalfa then the clover is still there.
The previous 3 years have been very unkind to clover/ alfalfa inter seeding. This year is closer to historical'normal' than your first year was!
If you plant oats for gran or chopping, I really like that plow down blend going in with it.....
We used to grow rye in the 80s. Always think of doing a few acres again but $7 corn slowed that idea down....
From what I remember: go easy on the fertilizer, treat it like oats, not corn. It is easy to overdo it, tall, rank, fall over, more wet straw laying flat than grain if you overdo it. We put it on the lighter ground here, not the heavy wet stuff.
You are getting real late to get a good rye grain crop, maybe 3 weeks past prime time by next week. It can work, but its kinda like planting beans July 4th - see what happens don't expect top results.
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